Line-up register-gage.



J. C. DITTRICH.

LINE-UP REGISTER GAGE.

APPLICATION FILED Nov, I9, I9I3.

1,1 53,896. Patented Sept. 21, 1915.

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NITE STATES PATENT FFIQF.

JOSEPH C. BITTE/IGH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LINE-UP REGISTER-GAGE.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH C. DITTRIGH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of `New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Line-Up Register-Gages, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification. ,Y

-This invention relates to a class of devices adapted to be used in the art of printing.

In accordance with the present methods in practice when a book, or like publication is c printed it is customary to arrange the forms of the type composition in a chase so that a.

number of the pages of the publication may be printed in unison by a press, and frequently a similar number of the forms are arranged in separate chases. In order to permit the printing of the pages of the publication on one side of the sheet to be executed so that the printing of the pages on the second side of the sheet will be in accurate register therewith, it is necessary that the forms in one chase be positioned to exactly correspond with the positions of the forms in the other chases, and in makingup the sets of forms `in the chases a variation in the alinement thereof invariably oci forms of type composition, as 18, from curs.

My invention has for its object primarily to overcome these objections by providing a device or register gage designed to bev employed for permitting the forms of the type composition in each chase to be readily made-up so that the forms in one chase will precisely conform with the positions of the forms in the other chases, whereby the pages of the publication when printed on both sides of the sheet will-be in accurate register'. This is accomplished mainly by providing a retaining member adapted to be movably positioned upon the chase against guides, and to the retaining member is pivoted one end of a bar provided with a scale, or register. On the other end of the registering bar is adjustably held a transversely disposed guide bar which serves to indicate the accuracy of the alinement of the forms in the chase as-well as being adapted to indicate the positions of the forms relatively to the chase.

A further object of the invention is to provide a register gage of a simple, eflicient, and durable construction, and which is sus- Speccation of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 19, 1913.

shapes.

Patentedfsept. 21, 1915.

Serial No. 801,895.

ceptible of being made in various sizes and l A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawing-forming apart of this specification in which similar characters of lreference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, the said invention being more fully described hereinafter, `and then pointed out in the claims at the end of the description.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a top plan of a number of forms of type composition arranged in the chase of a printing press, and showing one form of register gage embodying my invention asused in conjunction therewith. Fig. 2 is a top plan of the register. gage. Fig. 3 is an enlarged side view thereof. Fig. 4 is a'sectional view, partly in detail,taken on the line II-II of Fig. 2, andFig. 5 is an enlarged side view of the retaining member of thev device.

The device, or line-up register gage is adapted to be employed in conjunction with the usual, or any preferred type of chase, as 10, having an outer-frame 11, inner cross- -bars 12 and 13 to provide a number of which the pages of a publication are printed. The cross-bars 12 and 13 are formed so that each of the edges thereof is absolutely true to a straight line, and said bars are relatively arrangedy so that their extending portions are disposed at exactly right angles with each other.

V'lhe register gage has an elongated retaining member, or bar 19, the side edges of which are formed so as to be exactly parallel, and the central part of the top surface of this bar is cut-.out to provide a transversely disposed recess 20. In the recess 2O is movably disposed one end of a bar 21 on the top surface of which is a scale, or register 22 which may be indicated by lines or graduations representing inches and fractions thereof. The end of the registering bar 21 disposed in the recess 2O is pivoted, at 23, tothe retainingbar 19 so as to be adapted to be hingedly swung over the retaining bar from one side thereof to its other side.

Upon the registering bar 21 is provided a guide 21 which is also in the form of a bar Y against movement when adjusted upon theV registering bar 21 relatively to the retaining bar 19, to opposite parts of the guide bar at spaced distances from its passage 27 are fastened one of the corresponding ends of each of two rods 28 and 29. The rods 28 and 29 are disposed so that the other ends thereof converge toward each other, and between the converging ends of the rods is provided a sleeve 30 through which the guide bar is movably disposed. Through one of the side bar. I I

walls of the sleeve 30 is a threaded opening in which is screwed a thumb screw 31Y adaptl. ed to engage the registering bar 21. When the guide `bar 24 and the sleeve .30 arel properly adjusted upon the registering bar 21 by rotating the thumb screw 31 accordingly it will engage the registering bar, and the sleeve and the guide bar will then be tightly held against movement onV the guide In using the device to lineup the forms of type composition in a chase, as shown 1n Fig. 1, a set of members, as 19, preferably Y in the forms of spacing leads are introduced between the furniture of the form and the side edges of each of the inner cross-bars 12 and 13 of the chase so as to extend some distance above-the cross-bars. rIhe device is disposed so that the registering bar 21 and the guide bar 24 will be between one of the sets of the forms 18 and the registering bar will rest on the top surface of one of the cross-bars of the chasev 10. The retaining bar is afterward positioned so that its longitudinal edge in opposed relation to the guide bar 24 will abut againstthe set of the members 19a of the type form which is to lined up, and this retaining bar as well as the guide bar will thereby be trued with the side edges of the cross-bar ofthe chase. The guide-bar 24 is then adjusted on the registering bar 21 so that its edge opposed to the retainin bar will abut-against one of the corf responding edges of one of the pairs of type forms. Any variation in the alinement of the forms and the type thereof may be corrected by shifting or adjusting the forms and the type to conform with the adjacent edge of the guide-bar, and the exact positions of the forms is also noted on the scale of the registering bar. When more than one set of type forms are used in a chase,

next adjacent set of the type forms which are linedaip by usingV thedevice in lthemanner described. The device Vmay then be similarly employed on various parts of the cross-bars of the chase' for lining-'upI-the other forms, and by using the device correspondingly to line-up the forms of type composition in other chases a perfect` registration of the pages of the'publication will be obtained when printed by a press.

In the foregoing description, I have'em- Abodied the preferred form of my invention,

but I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself thereto, as I amV aware that modiiications may be made therein without'def 'parting from the principle, or sacrificing any of the advantagesV ofv this invention, therefore I reserve to myself the right to malre such changes as fairly fall within the scope of the appended claims. Y

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent Y 1. :In a line-up register gage, a retaining bar adapted to rest upon the frame ofl a5 chase, a register bar pivotally secured to the retaining bar Vwhereby the gage bar may be Adisposed upon either side of the retaining bar by a hinge movement and a guide adjustably secured upon the registering bar, said guidehaving extended, arms at either side of the registering gage whereby vthe position of type forms in the chase may be adjusted by the guide, Vsubstantially as shown and described. f

nation of a retaining bar adapted to rest upon the frame of a'printers chase, with a registering bar pivotally hingedto the retaining barso that the gage is reversibly se;

` cured to the central portion of the retaining bar, and a guide bar slidablyand removably mounted upon the register bar, and arranged in parallel relation with the retaining bar, means for rigidly securing the guide bar at any desiredv point upon the register bar, whereby the positions of the type-forms in the chase may be adjusted by adjusting the form relatively to the guide bar, and'means for disposing the retaining'bar in alinement with the frame of the chase, substantially as shown and described. Y

3. In a line-up register gage, thel combination with a retaining bar adapted to rest upon the frame of a printers chase, ofy a l u Y l u w11 2. In a line-up register gage, the comblregister bar pivotally hinged at the central of type or plates for printing may be lined portion of the retaining bar, and on the up and gaged, substantially as shown and upper side portion thereof, whereby the regdescribed.

ister bar may be reversibly disposed upon This specification signed and witnessed either side of the retaining bar, and a guide this eighteenth day of November, A. D. 15 bar removably and adj ustably disposed upon 1913.

the register bar, and arranged in parallel JOSEPH C. DITTRICH. relation to the retaining bar, and means for Witnesses: securing the guide bar at any desired posi- RoBT. B. ABBOTT,

"i0 tion upon the register bar whereby 'forms M. DERMODY.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents eaeh, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

